Remittances are often overplayed in migration literature however it is material to the reality of the diaspora experience in a transnational vain.

PPP arbitrage feeds families in manpower exporting countries.

Little Dhaka

Desker Road, Singapore

10/07/2023

The French street violence in the afternoon of a tragic death is a reflection of a post colonial reality which is reflected in its football team to the working classes. Large immigrant populations whether transient or citizens or multigenerational are the shadow of a global grid called empire from Tunis to Hanoi to Dakar to Pondicherry. Taxes are paid, work to operate the system as European white populations get older and the birth rates do not match.

Through the power of Berber Rai Music of Rached Taha and Cheb Mami – the structural alienation of the Maghrebis are felt in the tunes, especially Ya Rayyah and Khalid’s 1996 classic, Oran Marseille, a tune of transnational belonging. The suburbs don’t erupt without a reason, and migration as policy is imperative for many nations. The College De France recently held a conference on migration and the role of migrants in the economy of France either through labour, skill or taxes.

Race, Slavery and Colonialism are entangled and persist in subtler formations in capitalist societies because there is a neat business model. Sometimes the model breaches it’s safety valves. May be take migration research seriously into policy action for once?

ESG with its profound strengths in measurability and reporting is the ECG test needed for a firm to understand the key growth areas towards responsible capitalism.

Growing up in Masqat, I ate lamb sam(b)osas which came in frozen packets and were the staple of any dinner starter, in particular Iftars. The veg versions don’t come close even now.

Oman, an emerging renewable energy Indian Ocean State has a rich Tarikh or a history to note. Mandvi in Kutch is 600 miles from Sur where the Sea of Oman becomes the Arabian Sea. An understanding of history will enable the post oil transitions which the climate era entails.

I grew up in Muscat and am involved in the intellectual life of the Khaleej in an engaged manner having worked on almost every leading infrastructure planning project as a social specialist in the past decade.

Happy to see the new HREDD regulations calling for an intersectional lens to transnational non financial risk in global value chains, as an engineer and ethnographer, the sociotechnical approach is rich in nuance as single issue topics give an incomplete perspective in an Uber Risk Society of climate, human rights and digital vectors.

Human Rights in Business is a context-based matter. It is not the radical social justice variant which the activists call for. This is more from a welfare standpoint, and the context is care. The job of a business to cater to its customers primarily while keeping in mind its stakeholders in the ethical vain. ESG is about doing business in the ethical approach. Human Rights is thus protecting businesses from a reputational perspective than correcting historical wrongs of slavery and colonialism. An understanding of history and culture is context for global businesses. The best branding gurus read ethnography and history to understand culture.